Jon Lazkano

Jon Lazkano Agirre is an internationally renowned mountaineer, specialist in big walls with flagship activities in Patagonia and Baltoro, discoverer of little-known places. Born on February 21, 1969 in Bergara (Gipuzkoa), he is attracted by the big walls of the planet but rejects normal routes and "commercial" mountains. Among his climbs are the openings of Trango, Paine, Naranjo, etc. Routes in the Alps, Patagonia, Karakorum, attempts on the G-IV, a monolith of rock and ice culminating at 7,925 meters in the heart of Karakorum. He started climbing very young on Atxarte, Anboto, etc. In 1987, he made the Zodiac to El Capitan, Le Nez, Horse chute, etc. In 1988, with José Carlos Tamayo, he made New dawn, Tangerine trip and New Jersey turnpike, also in El Capitán. In 1988, during his visit to Patagonia with Guillermo Bañales, from Bizkaia, he climbed the Aguja Poincenot. In July 1989, with Javier Mugarra, also from Bizkaia, he reached a virgin peak that they named Pico Violeta, on the Choktoy glacier, and opened with Ramón Portilla the "Gizon berri bat naiz" on the western slope of the Naranjo.